Platform Engineer Lead — Kubernetes & Cloud Infra

Strivacity; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Strivacity in Herndon, VA (Remote) is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and operate scalable infrastructure that enables our engineering teams to ship software reliably at scale.

You’ll lead platform standards, mentor engineers, and partner with product teams to remove bottlenecks, improve observability, and accelerate automation using Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform/OpenTofu, and Helm.

Qualifications

• Kubernetes cluster admin with high-availability focus.
• Python scripting for automation and tooling.
• Infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform/OpenTofu/Helm).
• Collaborative, fast-moving teamwork.
• Experience with multi-account AWS and landing zone patterns.
• Knowledge of multi-tenancy patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters (EKS or self-managed) on AWS, ensuring high availability and security.
• Build and maintain GitHub Workflows and internal developer tooling to improve engineering velocity.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational tasks using Python and tools like Terraform, OpenTofu, and Helm.
• Define and enforce platform standards around observability, cost management, resource scaling, and proactive incident management.
• Partner with application teams to support containerized workloads and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with Customer Success teams by providing reliable and scalable tooling that supports seamless customer onboarding, integrations, and service delivery.

Skills

Kubernetes

Python

IaC tooling

Collaboration

AWS multi-account

Multi-tenancy

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Helm

ArgoCD

Flux

Istio

Falcon

Grype/Syft

OPA/Kyverno

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenSearch/ELK

Job description

Strivacity in Herndon, VA (Remote) is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and operate scalable infrastructure that enables our engineering teams to ship software reliably at scale.

You’ll lead platform standards, mentor engineers, and partner with product teams to remove bottlenecks, improve observability, and accelerate automation using Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform/OpenTofu, and Helm.